Vile Vortices

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Vile Vortices refers to a claim that there are twelve roughly evenly distributed geographic areas that are alleged^{[by whom?]} to have the same mysterious qualities^[specify] popularly associated with the Bermuda Triangle.

The best-known of these are the Bermuda Triangle itself, the Devil's Sea near Japan and the South Atlantic Anomaly. However, none of these (including the Bermuda Triangle itself) have been demonstrated to have any of these qualities, and the claims are not taken seriously in the scientific community.^{[citation needed]}

Paul Begg, in a series of articles for The Unexplained magazine, criticized the methodology of writers on the subject of unexplained disappearances. He checked original records of the alleged incidents. Often, he found, the ships which were claimed to have 'mysteriously disappeared' had a mundane reason for their loss (see for instance Raifuku Maru). Some were lost in storms, although the vortex writers would claim that the weather was fine at the time. In other cases, locations of losses were changed to fit the location of the vortex. Sometimes no record of the ship even existing in the first place was found.^{[1][Need quotation on talk to verify]}

[edit] See also

[edit] Vile Vortices

• Bermuda Triangle
• Devil's Sea
• Easter Island (in some versions)

[edit] Other Vortices

• The Michigan Triangle

[edit] References

1. ^ Begg, Paul. "Tales from the Bermuda Triangle" and succeeding articles, reprinted in Out of This World: Mysteries of Mind, Space and Time (Caxton, 1989), pp 8-22.

[edit] Further reading

• Berlitz, Charles. The Bermuda Triangle. Doubleday, 1974.
• Hitching, Francis. the World Atlas of Mysteries. Pan, 1978, pp56–7, 243.
• Kusche, Lawrence David. The Bermuda Triangle Mystery–Solved. Harper & Row, 1975.
• Quasar, Gian. Into the Bermuda Triangle. International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press, 2005.

[edit] External links

• Deepinfo.com More information on the Vile Vortices
• Interactive Planetary Grid Map